Nigeria, Sept. 21 -- In the last round of one-on-one exchanges between the two leading candidates in Saturday's Edo State governorship election, Governor Godwin Obaseki faced APC's Osagie Ize-Iyamu in a televised debate.

The debate organised by ChannelsTV saw the rivals slug over the funding history of past elections in the state, accusing each other of using state resources to corner political gains.

They also touched on why they became the candidates of the parties each opposed in the election four years ago, with Mr Obaseki saying he left the APC due to the godfatherism tendencies in the party and Mr Ize-Iyamu saying he is a foundation member of the APC so he only came back home.

Mr Ize-Iyamu would challenge his opponent to show evi...